HOW about an Emigre freebie?San Francisco, CA. - 31 May 2001
Be one of the first 500 people to visit the Gingko Press booth (#214) during the upcoming HOW conference in San Francisco and you'll be walking away with a free Emigre t-shirt.
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U&lc Revival?Creativepro.com - 29 May 2001
Two articles have been posted to the U&lc web site. Brian Allen's review of 'revival of the fittest' and Ilene Strizver's latestcolumn.
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File this one under ZNew York, NY. - 29 May 2001
ITC has also released Zinzinnati, another Nick Curtis design.

Chuckles from ITCNew York, NY. - 29 May 2001
ITC has just released Mr. Chuckles by Nick Curtis.

Typographer.com set for refreshEngland - 29 May 2001
David Earls reports that a redesigned Typographer.com will be unveiled on June 4.
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Rare books go FrenchLyons, France - 29 May 2001
In collaboration with Rare Book School, the Lyons-based Institut d'histoire du livre is offering three advanced four-day courses courses in the fields of book and printing history.
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'Probably the best'France - 29 May 2001
Alexis Zephir has contributed a round up of typography news web sites to the Porchez foundry site.
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Our historyFrance - 29 May 2001
Jean-François Porchez has posted the first part of a series of articles covering the history of type.
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ATypI 2001 site to debut June 1Surrey, England - 21 May 2001
The official ATypI 2001 conference site will be launched on June 1. At this time early-registrations discounts will also be announced.
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Pixel perfectMIT - 16 May 2001
Microsoft has received its first major ClearType patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Don Barker has written a short article about it for the MIT Enterprise Technology Review.
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VOLT community site outageRedmond, WA. - 16 May 2001
We are aware of problems affecting the Microsoft VOLT MSN community, and are working with MSN engineers to rectify the problems.

TypeCon movie watchRochester, NY. - 15 May 2001
The TypeCon 2001 organizers have added a screening of a punch cutting documentary to the event schedule.
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Bye bye DumbarThe Hague, NL. - 11 May 2001
Peter Bilak, co-editor of dot-dot-dot and the designer behind the Eureka typeface has decided to leave Studio Dumbar and go it alone.
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TypeCon early bird extendedRochester, NY. - 10 May 2001
Those nice people at SOTA are giving you an extra week to get TypeCon 2001 tickets at 20% off. They've made some program announcements too.
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Rebranding BritainBBC News - 9 May 2001
The BBC radio program 'In Business' is running an interesting competition.

Monster MayVarious sources - 8 May 2001
During the first week of May we averaged over three news links a day - far too many to include on this page. See the May archive for all twenty-five font related news links.

Octavo WiredWired News - 3 May 2001
Wired's Kendra Mayfield takes a look at Octavo, the Silicon Valley company that breathes new life into centuries-old books with digital technology.
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Flat is betterc|net - 3 May 2001
According to a c|net news report, IBM has announced a new manufacturing technique that it says will lead to higher-quality flat-panel displays and bring those devices to market faster.
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All quiet on the western fontWellington, NZ. - 2 May 2001
Following the closure of Makambo.com Jack Yan ponders on the state of play in the font world.
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Nugget's OpenType glitterYorklyn, DE. - 2 May 2001
Rich Roat of House Industries was kind enough to send us one of the Las Vegas fonts so that we could check out the OpenType features included within it.
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TypeCon early bird deadlineRochester, NY. - 1 May 2001
Save yourself 20% by registering for TypeCon 2001 before May 10.
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ATypI newsletter outATypI.org - 1 May 2001
Copies of the ATypI Newsletter #5 should now be with members. It's also available as a PDF download from the members section of the ATypI Web site.
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Another one bites the dusteBookNet.com - 1 May 2001
As a footnote to our earlier reports regarding the demise of eBookNet.com another Gemstar eBook Web site appears to have been shut down. See the Wired news report for details.
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Trebuchet MS upgradedRedmond WA. - 1 May 2001
Trebuchet MS, one of Microsoft's most popular free Web fonts, has been upgraded. The new version includes support for Greek and Cyrillic based languages.
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